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we also build our city's first skateboard park. they can even vote, but we invest a quarter of a million dollars and a skateboard park and put it downtown. decisions make a huge difference for people who live downtown. we just a few weeks ago -- we're the process of bringing back our authority to assist her economic development office. to do that we have to have an ambitious urban renewal plan. a few weeks ago we announced a planned that connects her downtown neighborhoods, now's restoration making sure people have access to transportation, things like food could we have neighborhoods in our city where people can get healthy food, or mcdonald's is the closest thing to a live and that's a problem in sending our local planning department has to deal with, not something the state and federal government to allow, but they gave resources in grants to do to make sure people make sure everyone in the community are also common diversity of the staff. i remember when i said i ran for mayor, that's where the latinos live. tonight when it com
we also build our city's first skateboard park. they can even vote, but we invest a quarter of a million dollars and a skateboard park and put it downtown. decisions make a huge difference for people who live downtown. we just a few weeks ago -- we're the process of bringing back our authority to assist her economic development office. to do that we have to have an ambitious urban renewal plan. a few weeks ago we announced a planned that connects her downtown neighborhoods, now's restoration...
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also building our cities first skateboard park that will be done next summer for our cities young people. we are investing a quarter million dollars and a skateboard park and putting it downtown. this is is that does make a huge difference for people who live downtown. a few weeks ago we were in the process of bringing back our holyoke revolved authority to assist a revolt in office and we have to have an ambitious urban renewal plan. just a few weeks ago we announced in a renewal plan that connects our downtown neighborhoods announced the restoration. it will be coming up to the knowledge corridor and making sure people access to transportation that they can walk to restore, things -- we have never heard in our city where people can't get healthy food. the mcdonald's is the closest and cheapest thing to where they live, and that is obviously a problem and something of a local planning department has to deal with, not something the state and federal government can do alone, but then they give us recesses in grants to do that to assist us to come up just make sure that we have people in t
also building our cities first skateboard park that will be done next summer for our cities young people. we are investing a quarter million dollars and a skateboard park and putting it downtown. this is is that does make a huge difference for people who live downtown. a few weeks ago we were in the process of bringing back our holyoke revolved authority to assist a revolt in office and we have to have an ambitious urban renewal plan. just a few weeks ago we announced in a renewal plan that...
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it was the first place involve the ball in the first industrial city in the entire united states and the first to make paper or so we are nicknamed the paper city. like a lot of cities in the northeast we were once a booming industrial city but at the same time folks came into holyoke and a lot of the factories closed or moved overseas so we right now have a high of 11% employment -- unemployment rate. about 50% of our population is latino mostly puerto rican descent and a diversity as well. so i got elected last november. there were four of us running in the election. and nonpartisan race on the local level so the top vote getters faced off against each other in november. i won with 53% of the vote and i became mayor in january at the age of 22. then i turned 23 and i will be 24 and january so i'm quickly getting up there. [laughter] is a very stressful job but also very very rewarding. there is nothing more special than being a mayor in a city that you were born and where your family still lives in your friends are there and the school that you want to is distill their and your tea
it was the first place involve the ball in the first industrial city in the entire united states and the first to make paper or so we are nicknamed the paper city. like a lot of cities in the northeast we were once a booming industrial city but at the same time folks came into holyoke and a lot of the factories closed or moved overseas so we right now have a high of 11% employment -- unemployment rate. about 50% of our population is latino mostly puerto rican descent and a diversity as well. so...
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first of all i was a city councilman in washington, d.c. for many years a local elected official. and when i looked at president obama's appointment to the supreme court, he has had to appointments, both women and one of them was hispanic. this is a brilliant move for a man that means that coalition to get reelected. so i wanted to just get your response. they can go back to him and if he gets reelected you all know they are going to protect. the voting rights act what is your response to that? >> no guarantee. [laughter] >> the flip side to that is the initial response you have a debt limit that gave 96% of their votes and neither one of them or by the african-american women where you complain about clarence thomas. >> and they had a high rate in any other group in the country. >> there is something to be said about ignoring that vote especially when thurgood marshall was replaced by somebody that the black community has been hands off with and that is an understatement that you have got on the court 20 years ago so there has been an oversight. >> exactly. there are two sides loo
first of all i was a city councilman in washington, d.c. for many years a local elected official. and when i looked at president obama's appointment to the supreme court, he has had to appointments, both women and one of them was hispanic. this is a brilliant move for a man that means that coalition to get reelected. so i wanted to just get your response. they can go back to him and if he gets reelected you all know they are going to protect. the voting rights act what is your response to that?...
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congressman, you're the first answer. king: i would start reworking a bipartisan fashion in the iowa delegation on a continual basis. in 2008 when the floods hit in iowa city i went over there immediately and flew over all that and went on the ground and met with the leaders of cedar rapids for example for the democrats that represent that part of the state. they didn't take me about but rejoined me together and everything. when we get hit with floods on the side of the state become over and join me. i introduced legislation to protect us from the next flood coming down the missouri river with the sign on right away. that is the bipartisanship the you get in a national disaster. they are less partisan and congress but we have had a broad bipartisan effort here with an iowa working with those things that matter to iowa and hopefully i will be able to get a bipartisan support on the farm bill like a forgotten by partisans of along the missouri river legislation. h.r. 2942 in case you want to google that. >> moderator: mrs.
congressman, you're the first answer. king: i would start reworking a bipartisan fashion in the iowa delegation on a continual basis. in 2008 when the floods hit in iowa city i went over there immediately and flew over all that and went on the ground and met with the leaders of cedar rapids for example for the democrats that represent that part of the state. they didn't take me about but rejoined me together and everything. when we get hit with floods on the side of the state become over and...